Just noticed today that Google Chrome has “diff-style” indicators in the scrollbar area when searching for text on a page.
Never seen that in a browser before, but definitely cool to have.
Convenience Fees
Related to my parking ticket from earlier today, I have a little rant about online “convenience fees.”
If I wanted to pay said ticket online, I’d have to pay an additional $3 convenience fee.
Are you kidding me right now? This is 2010 correct?
You should be giving me a discount for paying online and using your automated system instead of charging me extra for it. I’m doing you, the city of Providence, a favor by paying online and not mailing a check or showing up in person at a municipal court location.
You don’t need someone to manually receive my check in the mail, open the envelope, match up the ticket number and payment fee, enter the information into your payment system, put the check in the accounts receivable stack, and then have someone run the physical check to the bank to be deposited.
Instead, you could make life as easy as possible on you and me and let me pay using an automated system online where the reconciliation process and transfer of funds is handled seamlessly in about 90 seconds flat.
Although, judging by the fact that http://providenceri.com redirects to http://www3.providenceri.com/, my guess is that the whole process probably would have taken more than 90 seconds and wouldn’t have been that painless either. Thats just my guess from your wonky “www3” sub-domain though.
Convenience fee. Please…
